Test 1 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1:…
bro, did the emperor care more about his soldiers or his fits?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: do · To what, where: emperor care
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 274 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Emperor's New Clothes, part 1: a vain Emperor is fooled by two cheating weavers» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 bro | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 care | det |
| 5 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 care | compound |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 did | advmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 soldiers | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 soldiers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 did | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 fits | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fits | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 soldiers | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | bro | the emperor care | about bro's soldiers or bro's fits | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
his outfits way more than anything else he owned or did
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 2 | outfits | outfit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 way | compound |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 more | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 owned | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 anything | case |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 owned | obl |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 anything | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 owned | nsubj |
| 9 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 did | cc |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 owned | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | he | than anything | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | do | past | he not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
the soldiers, duh
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soldiers | punct |
| 4 | duh | duh | INTJ | _ | 2 soldiers | discourse |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his fits, way more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 fits | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fits | fit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 way | punct |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fits | conj |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 fits | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
soldiers, mostly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 soldiers | punct |
| 3 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 1 soldiers | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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